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Thursday, January 17, 2013

I would carry a better camera with me while I run and cycle, but the muted watercolor effect my phone's camera produces is enchanting.

Pittsburg, CA

Briones Regional Park - Looking west as the sun begins to paint the hill tops.

More paint.

Looking west from the Benicia Bridge.

You can't capture the brilliance of the icy dawn with any camera. The joy of running along frozen trails and leaving footprints in the frosted grass is difficult to describe, as is the metamorphosis of a wilderness trail from dawn into daylight. I soak in the colors as well as the crisp cold - and know that what I will able to share is a trifle. Those are moments of innocent selfishness - there is no way to share those sights and sounds; they are available in that moment only and visible from that ridge, valley or road - where at that singular moment and from that perspective only I can absorb the beauty. If I don't - then it is lost. Those moments are a gift from the Creator, and He knows they are gifts I cannot easily share.

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A Winding Path

MTB Lakeport

My buddy (2nd best friend) Jeremy and I before riding Boggs Mtn.

Swintonism - defined

A Swintonism is the unintended use of Metaphor, Cliche, or other figure of speech in casual conversation, directly, and ironically coinciding with an immediately previous line of conversation or event. (This is not a pun, as puns are intentionally contrived for the humor of the listener. Per the definition, the Swintonism is unintentional)

Recent Swintonisms

---- Following is the response from my business partner after viewing the Death Ride website. "Sounds like a killer ride." Hmmm? Seemed a little obvious, but he claims it was a legit Swintonism.

---- In discussing the cost benefit of renting vs. buying another power washer, an employee stated that the benefit was on the side of purchasing, since the cost even on the first project "would be a wash." He would have liked to take credit for the pun - but we wouldn't let him. A Swintonism it was.

---- Via text message - "Vince bailed out." This was my report to another rider that Vince had decided not to ride because of torrential rains. I did not realize the play on words till it was already out.

---- In an email from a co-hiker, recapping her account of the roadside fire, witnessed by us one evening after hiking / jogging in Briones. (Which also had a significant role in my 5 week bout with Poison Oak) "I'm warming up to the night hiking"